[HPforGrownups] McG / DD / Re: Why should Harry be expected to listen to anyone at H...

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 123202

--- festuco <vuurdame at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> No, if anybody failed Harry against DU it was Harry himself. Again,
> he had all the necessary information. He knew about the rigged 
> trial. He knew about the attempt to make him miss it and so be 
> unable to speak out in his own defense. He knew Fudge did 
> everything he could to get
> him expelled and how the only reason he did not succeed was because
> there was a witness. How Fudge did his utmost to discredit that
> witness. He knew about how te Daily Prophet blackened him because
> of the MoM's wishes. He knew, because Hermione had it spelled out
to
> him, that the MoM was interfering at Hogwarts. And what does he do?
> He challenges DU, who he remembers from his trial as a Fudge toady.

> As McGonnagal said to him 'Where's your common sense?'. 
> 
> Gerry

Harry's biggest problem in OOTP is that he doesn't spend any time
connecting the dots.  He doesn't stop and reflect on things that
happpened in the recent past, and wonder if they're having an impact
on the present.  He does pretty much the same thing during
occlumency: his scar is hurting more, but he doesn't remember - if he
really took it in in the first place - that Voldemort is now aware of
the mental connection with Harry.  He never stops to ask if that
might not be cause-and-effect.  He just blames Snape.

Hermione, on the other hand, like McGonagall, DOES connect the dots. 
She knows the MOM is not acting at random, that there is a plot and
that Fudge is too dumb to come up with it.  Fudge is a tool - but
whose tool?

Magda


	
		
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